(TB) Reading Response:

1.) Hornaday, Blair, and Osborn pushed the zoo's public mission to be Conservation forward. The zoo was to be a place of education instead of a park for amusement. Osborn eliminate a ban on cameras and made a road train for the visitors of the zoo. The African Plains exhibit was designed to be more authentic to the animal's natural habitat and flora. The Prise for the Bronx zoo comes from their outstanding (for that time) effort to change to zoos focus to conservation and the animal's happiness.

2a.) The Seattle Woodland Park Zoo's biggest innovation was that they organized and designed their enclosures by Bioclimatic Zones. The animals were placed into their natural climate in relationship to Seattle's weather pattern. They also made the landscape and climate extend past the animal's enclosure so not only the animals would feel immersed and happy in their environment, but the viewers would too. 

2b.) It seems as though the zoo's using the "landscape immersion approach" (like the Sonoran Desert Museum) are very animal focused. It is not about what the viewer wants to see, what animal is easier to see, or the popularity of the animal-It is about what is best for the animal and what can educate the viewer on conservation. 

3.) I think his argument makes a lot of sense. The point of the zoo should be to try to mimic the animals environment as closely as it can. If the animals are going to be in captivity, they might as well be feel "at home" and the viewer would like to imagine their cage as if it were in the wild. No one gets joy out of seeing and animal that looks unhappy in its inclosure.